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icRenowned bass-baritone Darren K. Stokes will return to Ithaca Ciollege Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. to present a free recital of classical, spiritual and Broadway music, including a reprise of his solo of 'A Red Headed Woman' from Porgy and Bess, in honor of Black History Month. The concert, in Ithaca College's Ford Hall, will also feature the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers (DCJS).

Stokes has performed with prominent companies throughout the U.S., including the New York City Opera, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati May Festival, Boston Lyric Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, San Francisco Opera, Dallas Opera, Seattle Opera and the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, among many others. On the operatic mainstage, he has performed in Figaro, Il Trovatore, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Madame Butterfly, Faust, and Porgy and Bess, among many others. He played Crown in the October production of Porgy and Bess at Ithaca College

DCJS has more than 80 members of different ages (18 to 78), heritages and backgrounds, including almost 20 Ithaca College voice students. Founded and directed by Baruch Whitehead, associate professor of music education at Ithaca College, the chorus seeks to preserve the Negro Spiritual and use its themes of sorrow, despair and hope to promote racial healing and social justice. The group will make its debut at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., this Mothers Day (May 14).

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